Whether you love PETA or hate them, you still may find the humor in their new campaign to change the word for "fish" to "sea kittens." Maybe they took the word "catfish" a bit to far, but you have to wonder is a fish sti...

Boston.com has a very cool chart detailing how to mess with your mind's perceptions, naturally. I think the most interesting one is definitely the first one. It tells you how to hallucinate with ping pong balls and a...

Web Urbanist has a great new post up of some really unique felines. There's the cat that predicts death, the seeing eye cat, the station master kitty and more. Most of them, if not all, have already been featured on...

I know some people find text-based games ("Interactive Fiction") a little dull, but I love them. I was seriously addicted to a certain text-based game back in the day, so I have a soft spot for them. This one is pret...

I don't remember to watch Saturday Night Live very often, but I'm glad I remembered to last weekend because I was completely delighted by this Digital Short of Neil Patrick Harris and the cast jamming out to the...

I don't play chess, but if I did, these pieces at Suck UK would be pretty cool. The pieces are made out of black and white chalk, so you just draw yourself a quick board and you're good to go. That's not to say that...

Paul and Caragh Brooks spent a total of about $200 on their wedding, in front of family and friends at a Taco Bell restaurant in Normal, Illinois.
With several dozen invited guests in the room, the couple sat in a d...

Was it a case of drug smuggling or not? First, closed circuit cameras picked up the image of a tiny helicopter flying into the compound at Elmley Prison in Sheerness, Kent, England. The next night, guards saw the flying...

If you remember (or still play) the board game Clue, you know there are nine possible crime scenes. Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss challenges you to name them all in under two minutes. No fair pulling the game...

Who hasn't wanted their very own private island? And what if you could build it with some friends and free recycled objects. Sound too good to be true? This guy has built not one but two!The original Spiral Island wa...

DarkRoastedBlend has what is indesputably the most comprehensive and impressive collection of dangerous roads around the world - and part six to the ongoing series is no exception.Want to feel happy and safe? Then ga...

Only $495, the perfect gift for anyone! Looks like the real thing, everybody needs their water resonated! The WATER RESONATOR is the original water balancing technology used by Tibetan and Buddhist monks f...

A hotel in Bolivia always has salt on its dining table - actually, its dining table is salt! Here's the strange Salt Hotel of the Uyuni Flats:The hotel was built in 1993 by a salt artisan who saw a mint in t...

Since 1985, Robitaille's Candy Co. in Carpinteria, CA has been the exclusive purveyor of handmade chocolate mints for the presidential inauguration parties.
Every four years, Robitaille's switches from its normal...

Apparently it's called a frogfish, and while it looks sort of cute from afar, this thing is ugly... and fascinating. DarkRoastedBlend has a whole gallery of different types of frogfish, from the fluffy to the warty....

Now there's an online tool available that allows you to turn your photos into something that looks like tilt-shift, the technique that's been used in these videos for example. Link - via BB-BlogPhotography, tilt-shift...

This is a fantastic idea to build buzz in the blogosphere: the creators of Coraline, a movie inspired by the novella by Neil Gaiman, sent out 50 handmade boxes with items from movie to their favorite bloggers.Super Punch...

Robert Birming, the author of GeekAlerts, has decided to close down his gadget blog (because it simply takes too much time, a luxury he doesn't have at the moment).Robert, who is also an author on Neatorama and a rock st...

It takes real talent to make test pattern cool, but film student André F. Chocron did just that. Here's a minute-long animation, titled Bars and Tones, set to Penguin Cafe Orchestra's Perpetuum Mobile.Link [embedd...

Guys have been able to erhm, order, a mail order bride from Russia and Asia for quite some time now. But what about the ladies? Fulfilling an obviously under-served niche is this fantastic website, Mail Order Husbands.Th...

I learned something new today: the ugly concrete building style of the 50s to the 70s, exemplified by Le Corbusier, has a name. It is called Brutalist Architecture (the term brutalist originates from the French b&eac...